Rui S
I'm in 😎

Ben M
👁️👁️👁️

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Danny Ray
This looks better than my Panther. Then again my Tamiya was/is (it's in the paint shop) my first ever 1:35 scale AFV…if I ever get to your level of build quality I'll be a happy cockney 😘😇😊😊😁

Danny Ray
By the way, you can always trust you Jakko to have an interesting subject matter. Something a little quirky or different. Never knew the allies had one. It was relatively common to use an enemy's vehicles I believe but it's still somewhat of a shock when you actually see it.

Jakko ‌ Auteur
There are a good number of photos of captured Panthers used by the Allies, but Cuckoo is probably the best-known. For a lot more pictures of all kinds of captured German vehicles, take a look at this thread on Missing-Lynx: tapatalk.com/groups/..-allies-t337227.html

Danny Ray
If you look at the new hatch door you built, if you zoom in a little it looks a little bit like the palm tree part of the DAK marking that has the tree with a swastika half way down its trunk. Or am I going mad? They do say the human brain tries to find familiar shapes in everything. Could be a case of that! 🙂

Jakko ‌ Auteur
You mean on the Zimmerit? That's an arrow pointing up, to ensure the hatch would end up the right way round 🙂 I had to take care that the ridges and grid pattern on the hatch line up with those on the turret, and the arrow helps with that.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress so far. This threat also is a good tutorial.

Jakko ‌ Auteur
Thanks, I like model threads that actually show what the builder is doing rather than just posting the finished article 🙂

Danny Ray
Ahhh thanks for the explanation Jakko. I thought it must've been intentional!

Doubtingmango
Love the narrative

Jakko ‌ Auteur
Thanks — and see my previous post, above 🙂

Spanjaard
wow fantastic details, looking forward to the rest of the show

Jakko ‌ Auteur
Bedankt 🙂 I now have to figure out what most of the other stuff is that was on the real tank when it was photographed near Geijsteren and in Tilburg. Some of it's easy, like a couple of jeryrcans, a bucket, etc. but other bits are very hard to make out.

Spanjaard
sure you will figure out 🙂

Pepe
Inside

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Sergio Ordonez
Extraordinary build and interesting topic! I bow my hat.

Dave
That's a nice looking panther.

Guy Rump
Very impressive, congrats! 👍

Jakko ‌ Auteur
Thank you all 🙂

Villiers de Vos
Very good work. Thank you for sharing. And an extraordinary story behind the tank itself.

Ben M
Very cool build, Jakko! Had to be cold in there with the door stuck open.

Jakko ‌ Auteur
As if it's not cold in a tank otherwise 🙂 Seriously, it's a big lump of steel with no heater other than the engine (and the guns, if you're firing them) …

Danny Ray
Freezing in winter, roasting in summer, everyone focusing on eliminating you first if you're embedded with infantry. Fumes from the engine. Smoke from the guns. Oil. Grease. Claustrophobia and the thought your little cramped space could becoming a funeral pyre inferno. I'm amazed they even got anyone in to have a look inside, let alone go fight in one! 😳

Jakko ‌ Auteur
On the other hand, you're immune to all enemy fire that CAN'T kill you, so in that respect you're much safer off than the infantry. And you don't need to walk everywhere 🙂

Danny Ray
That's true. Swings and roundabouts as they say 🙂